Mad Max game to get Australian accent

Open-world car combat game to include Australian voice actor following fan petition.

Last month, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment announced that it would be bringing the post-apocalyptic film world of the Mad Max series to the PC, as well as current- and next-generation game consoles.

Following news that the game would include an American, rather than Australian, voice actor to play Mel Gibson's iconic leading role, a petition was filed on website Change.org and drew more than 2,800 signatures.

Today, Avalanche Studio founder and chief creative officer Christofer Sundberg confirmed that following the fan response, the game will now seek out an Australian to voice the part.

“Attn. fans who want Max to have an Aussie accent in #MadMaxGame : It shall be so. We admire your loyalty. You have been heard,” he said on Twitter.

The game will be an open-world action game with vehicular and third-person shooting combat elements. It is currently slated to ship on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC in 2014.

Good. Although the fact that they even tried this in the first place makes me wonder about how else they're going to change the character. The Australian setting is so iconic in Mad Max that it's ridiculous.

I hope that the game itself is set in Australia and it's not just Max that's Australian but in America or something.

He'd be great, but I think it's a case of him being too big and mad max is too small. Granted, it launched his career, but they were Indy films (minus thunder dome ). It's sad because I feel like he was asked but just snubbed it.

@wgerardi They tried to get Mel Gibson. They left him a voice message. He replied by leaving 12,000 obscenity laced racist messages on the producer's phone. The producer is Johan Freidman Goldberg. They didn't see eye to eye.

@EL_Bomberdor@wgerardi Oh damn, I didn't know Tom Hardy was going to play Mad Max. I thought it was going to be Sam Worthington. I love Hardy, but I liked the idea of them getting an Australian native.

@LesserAngel@wgerardi@EL_Bomberdor The one publicity photo they have of him in the role does look pretty beat up and rugged, you can still see the pretty boy shine through though. Hopefully his acting will mask it up.